Bilingual education

Elena Marqueto-Kelly teaches the advanced Spanish class for first- to third-graders at the Grupo Educa School. Bilingual parents have organized Sunday school at Blair East Elementary School in Pasadena to give their children more exposure to Spanish.

Elena Marqueto-Kelly teaches the advanced Spanish class for first- to third-graders at the Grupo Educa School. Bilingual parents have organized Sunday school at Blair East Elementary School in Pasadena to give their children more exposure to Spanish. (Axel Koester / For The Times)

Elena Marqueto-Kelly teaches the advanced Spanish class for first- to third-graders at the Grupo Educa School. Bilingual parents have organized Sunday school at Blair East Elementary School in Pasadena to give their children more exposure to Spanish.Axel Koester / For The Times